Hidden inside calendars sit calendars and landraces, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 393 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
calendars and landraces tie for the highest Scrabble score from calendars at 12 points. The top 10 of 393 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in calendars: one comes from rearranging its letters, and calendars itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calendars. For points, the strongest plays are calendars and landraces — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in calendars. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calendar. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including calendar, calderas and candelas.
Rearranging the letters in calendars produces 28 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with candles and dancers. For points, 18 words tie at 10 points, including candles, dancers and alcades.
Unscrambling calendars turns up 66 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with candle, cleans and clears. For points, 22 words tie at 9 points, including candle, dancer and dances.
There are 113 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in calendars. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, cards and cared. For points, 21 words tie at 8 points, including cards, cared and dance.
Rearranging the letters in calendars produces 104 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, cans and card. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including card, aced and cade.
Unscrambling calendars turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and and are. For points, the strongest play is cad — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in calendars. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, and as. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in calendars plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in calendars and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
calendars is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for calendars. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
calendars is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing calendars unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are calendars and landraces, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from calendars earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in calendars produce 393 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 28 seven-letter words, 66 six-letter words, 113 five-letter words, 104 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.